That's because someone else took his place. Captain Marvel was another hero that made his debut in "Whiz Comics #2" in the late 1939 published by Fawcett Comics. It featured a 12-year-old orphaned ...

Captain Marvel's history is rich, from being a Golden Age icon to being a center of copyright disputes. Marvel outmaneuvered DC by securing the name first, causing DC to rebrand Shazam and ...

A stunned Mary just looked on. The runaway success of Shazam/Captain Marvel in the 1940s inspired his then-publisher Fawcett to create a whole family of characters based on him. Within a few years ...

and if it hadn't been for Shazam, we would not have had Captain Marvel. Ironically enough, Superman, as we know, might not have existed without Shazam as well. During the first few years ...